Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s. „ „ The Love Song. We have a few plates by Troost, chiefly mezzo-tints ; among them the following: Portrait of Pietro Locatelli, Painter.Bust of an old Man with a Beard. 1734.A Girl drawing by the Light of a Lamp.A Woman on the Steps of a Door, holding a light, andtaking leave of a Gentleman in black. Sara, the daughter of Cornelis Troost, was bomat Amsterdam in 1731. She painted pastel portraits,and made drawings from her fathers pictures andfrom those of Steen, Dou, and Dujardin. She be-came the wife of Ploos van Amstel, and died atAmsterdam in 1803. E. 8. TROOST, Wilhelmus, portrait and landscapepainter, was born at Amsterdam in 1685. He wasa pupil of Johann Glauber, but went to Diisseldorfto complete his studies, and there married thedaughter of J. Van Nikkelen, painter to the court.After visiting several German courts, he returnedto his own country. He painted for twelve yearsat Haarlem, and afterwards settled at Amsterdam.He occasionally painted portraits, but chiefly de-
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<3 I p w ou u H Q ObW uu PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. voted his time to landscapes, both in oil and Indianink ; the latter are considered valuable. His stylein landscape partakes of that of his first master,Glauber. He died at Amsterdam in 1759. Hiswife, Jacoba Maria van Nikkelen, was also apainter; she had been a pupil of Van der Mijn, andexcelled in fruit and flower-pieces. E. S. TROOSTWIJK, Wouter Johannes van, a land-scape and cattle painter, born at Amsterdam, May28, 1782, studied drawing under Anthonie Andries-sen, and painting under Jurriaan Andriessen. Hispictures have a resemblance to those of Paul Potter,Karel Du Jardin, and Adrian Van de Velde, and someare worthy to rank with theirs. He practised inAmsterdam, where he died September 20, 1810.There are landscapes by him in the Museums ofAmsterdam and Rotterdam. TROPPA, Girolamo, painter, flourished in Italyabout 1700. He was a successful imitator andprobably a pupil of Maratti. He left many worksin Rome, both in oil and fresco

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